Sleuthing in the Stacks

  Here’s a guest post from friend of the library Karen Hedges (whose website, including blog, you can find here ). Karen works tirelessly to promote and further the educational work of the Norman L ockyer observatory above Sidmouth, which feature d in a previous post on Norman and Lady Lockyer. Karen has also put on a number of excellent illustrated science talks in St Thomas Library, with a particular focus on the Moon. Here, however, she focusses her attention on a major saga by a Devon-based author which she got swept up in, which takes its protagonist through the turbulent history of the first half of the twentieth century. As Karen says, it's a real reading marathon, but one which she has completed. So here she is, reporting back from the finishing line for Sleuthing in the Stacks. Book Review of Henry Williamson’s Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight   This ambitious project has taken me a year to complete, and then not entirely as I skipped a couple of volumes in order to com